Kitchenette



K. M. MURCHISOM KITCHENETTE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1919.

Pamntedl Dec. 12, 1922.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30. I919- Patented Dec. 12, 192.

KENNETH M. MURCHISOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

KITCHENETTE.

Application filed September 30, 1919. Serial No. 327,521.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KENNETH M. MURCHI- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county,

and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kitchenettes, of which the following is a specification.

An object of my invention is to provide in a kitchenette combining in compact form a large number of features which are adapted to be conjointly or successively used in the operation of the device. Other objects and advantages of my invention will hereinafter appear.

My invention includes features of construction and combinations of parts as will appear from the following description.

I shall now describe the kitchenette embodying my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings and shall thereafter point out my invention in claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation with some of the parts in the open position. i

Figure 2 is a nearly central vertical section on a plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Figure 1 as viewed from the left, with the upper door closed and showing in broken lines the raised position ofthe sink and its so adjuncts.

Figure 3 is a vertical section on a plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figure 1 as viewed from the left, with some of the parts in different positions.

Figure 1 is a horizontal section on a plane indicated by the line 4-4 of Figure 1 as viewed from above and with the open doors in a slightly different position.

Figure 5 is a section on horizontal planes indicated by the oifset lines 5--5 of Figure 1 as viewed from above.

Figure 6 is a horizontalsection on a plane indicated by the line 66 of Figure las viewed from above but with the doors closed.

Although the kitchenette of my invention is of unitary construction, forming a single article of furniture, as a whole it may be generally considered as made up of three component parts comprising a lower part, a middle part, and an upper part. The lower part of the kitchenette comprises three compartments arranged successively in series the drawings.

side by side but all joined together, and the tops of which form a workin table. The compartment 1 at the left, as viewed in Figures 1, 5 and 6 of the drawings, has an outwardly opening swinging door 2, and is shown as having therein a shelf 3, hooks 4, and racks 5 upon the door. This compartment is adapted to be used for containing pots and pans.

The middle compartment 6 has an outwardly swinging door 7 hinged to swing to the left similarly to the door 2 of the compartment 1. This compartment 6 in its upper part supports a sink 8.

The other end compartment, namely, that appearing at the right in Figures 1, 5 and 6, is a refrigerator or ice box 9, provided at the front with a door 10 hinged to swing to the at the back. The upper part or upper side of the hlnged ice box cover 11 is raised and made to slope towards the sink 8 and this raised part is grooved as shown. so as to form a drain board 12 adapted to drain into the. sink 8, as will be clear from the drawings, particularly Figures 1 and 5.

Above the door 2 of the compartment 1, this compartment is provided with a deep drawer 13 and above this with a deep slide 14 which may form a bread board. On the top of the compartment 1 is a slide 15 having at its back an upstanding asbestos lined shield 16, the slide 15 being adjustable forward and back and being adapted to support a stove 17 which may be of any suitable type, such 'as electric, gas, or oil. It will be noted that the hot stove 17 is separated from the cold ice box 9 by the whole of the middle compartment, thus conserving the ice.

The sink 8 sets into the top of the middle compartment 6 at the back and is adapted to be supplied with hot and cold water through swivel faucets .18 and 19. connected respectively to upright supply pipes 20 and 21. At the front of the sink 8 and above the compartment door 7 there is provided a middle cabinet section 22 having therein a narrow drawer 23, and above the drawer a narrow slide 24:, as is shown in Figures 1, 2 and 5 of The door 7 of the middle compartment Get the inner side thereof carries a semi-circular garbage can 25 which .70 right, and at the top having a cover 11 hinged fits loosely within an outer casing 26 secured to the. inner side of the door 7 and shown as resting at its bottom upon a bracket member 27. Thus the waste material is all confined in a single compartment which, of course,

. keeps food sweeter and minimizes the cleaning needed. The top of the outer casing 26 is sloping and is provided with a self-closing hinged door or lid 28 hinged ad acent to the door 7, and if desired the 11d 28 may be spring-pressed. The inner part or can 25 1s adapted to be removed from the outer casing 26 for emptying.

A folding table leaf 29 1s hinged to the top of the right or exposed ide of the ice box compartment 9 so that when in raised position as appears in Figu e 1, its upper side will be substantially flush with the top of the ice box. This folding table leaf 29 is adapted to be supported in this raised or operative position by means of a pivoted bracket 30 which may be swung to one'side when it is desired tolower or fold the table leaf 29, as will be readily understood. In their folded position, the supportingbracket 30 and table leaf 29 are adapted to fold into recesses in the side of the ice box compartment 9 substantially flush, as is clearly indicated at the right in Figure 6 of the drawings and as'also appears in Figure 1.

Above the working table formed by the tops of the three above described lower compartments comes the middle part of the kitchenette which is considerably less deep from back to frontthan the above described lower part. v This middle or intermediate part of the kitchenette provides, above the compartment 1 at the left, an open space on the top of the compartment 1 forming a storage space at the back of the stove shield 16, as clearly appears in Figure 5, this torage space being in partdefined at the left margin by a narrow vertical side wall 31. Above the middle lower compartment 6 at the back and in part above the sink 8, there are two narrow shelves 32 and 33 of which the lower shelf 33 is the narrower, as clearly appears in Figure 2. At the right, over the ice box compartment 9, there is provided first at the bottom a lower narrow shelf 34 (which may be a continuation of the shelf 33), above this shelf 34 a somewhat wider shelf 35 (which may be a continuation of the shelf 32), and above this shelf 35 a drawer 36. shown as sustained by a supporting shelf 37. A narrow marginal or end wall 38, shown in Figures 3 and 5, supports the outer ends of the shelves34, 35 and 37.

The ice box cover 11, embodying the sloping grooved drain board 12, may be held in open or elevated position by means of a catch member 39 shown as pivoted to the forward edge of the drawer-supporting shelf 37 and as engageable with a handle loop on the top of the cover 11, and this cover-retaining catch 39 may be a spring catch it so desired. v

lhe upper part of the kitchenette comprises three main upper compartments 40,

.41 and 42 arranged similarly to the lower compartments 1, 6 and 9, but of less depth from back to front and shown as of about one-half the depth of the lower compartments. These upper compartments main part supported by the water pipes 20 and 21 and at the sides are further braced or supported by means of standards 43 and 44 which also may be'conveniently formed of pipe. These upper compartments 40, 41 and 42 are provided, as shown in the drawings, particularly in Figure 1, with various racks, shelves, drawers, partitions, and hooks, so as thereby to adapt them for containing china, glassware, silver, bottles, and various groceries and supplies, some of the racks and hooks being shown as upon the doors of the compartments. In the construction shown,

the compartment 40 at the left is provided with. a swinging door 45 opening outward to the left, the upper compartment 42 at the right is provided with a similar swinging door 46 adapted to open outward to the right, and the middle compartment 41 is provided with right and left outwardly swinging door sections 47 and 48 forming a double door. A kitchen clock 49 is shown as'set into the upper part of the right door section 47, as appears in Figures 1, 2 and 4 of the drawings.

A towel bar 50 extends across above the sink 8 and below the middle compartment 41 and is shown as extending between and as supported by the water supply pipes 20 and 21.. An opening 51, forming a fresh air inlet, 1s shown as provide-d in the bottom part of the door 7 of the middle compartment 6,

and a ventilating pipe 52 extends from the upper part of the lower middle compartment 6 at the rear of the sink 8 at the back ,and opens above the top of the upper middle \compartment 41, as shown in Flgures 2, 4 and 5.

A waste water can 53 is provided below the sink for receiving waste water therefrom, and at its upper open end the can 53 extends upward around the sink 8 nearly to the top' of the sink at the outside thereof so that the sink 8, nearly to its full depth, is received within the top of the waste water can 53, as appears most clearly in Figure 2 of the'drawings. By reason ofthis arrangement, before the waste water can 53 is full, the water therein will rise into the sink 8 through the outlet 54 for the sink. Any time when the waste water does not appear in the sink, substantially a whole sink full of water may be emptied into the sink without danger of overflowing the waste water can, as will be readily understood. 'ater may rise in the sink nearly to the top thereof, but the level of the water would still be below the level of the top of the waste water 'an 53. In order that the waste water can 53 may be conveniently emptied, by pouring the contents therefrom, means now to be described are provided for so supporting the waste water can 53 and the sink 8, that these parts may have a relative disengaging movement in a vertical direction. Either the sink or the waste water can 53 may be thus moved but in the construction illustrated in the drawings I have provided means providing for the lifting of the sink 8 out of the top of the waste water can 53, and supporting means for the waste water can providing for its forward movement in the chamber 6 so that the contents may be conveniently emptied therefrom.

In the construction illustrated in the drawings, the sink 8 is provided around its top with a flange which rests upon the top of the compartment (3 for supporting the sink in its usual position of use, as shown in Figures 1 and 5 and in full lines in Figure 2. A set of links 55, shown as four in munber, two at each side, are pivoted at their forward ends to the top of the compartment (Sand at their rear ends are pivoted to the top and outside of the sink 8, these links preferably being somewhat inclined towards the front as shown inFigure 2, so that the sink may be conveniently lifted and pulled forward to raise it entirely out of the top of the water can 53, as is shown in broken lines in Figure 2, the links 55 then assuming a nearly vertical position, as there appears. The sink 8 may be held in this raised position by any suitable means, and in the construction shown in the drawings is adapted to be so held by means of a hook 56 shown as secured to the forward edge of the shelf 32 above the sink 8 and engageable with the flange of the sink 8 at the back.

In the particular construction shown in the drawings, the middle cabinet section 22 is shown as secured to the forward edge of the top of the sink 8 so as to be carried upward and forward by the sink 8. Thereby this cabinet section 22, together with the narrow drawer 23, and slide 24 provided therein, is also raised with the sink 8 above the top of the waste water can 53, as is clearly shown in broken lines in Figure 2 of the drawings. This raised position of the sink 8 and cabinet section 22 leaves the upper part of the waste water can 53 free for forward movement in the compartment 6.

Means now to be described are provided for supporting the waste water can 53 so that it may be moved forward from the back to the front of the compartment 6 for thereby more conveniently pouring out its con-- tents when the door 7 of this compartment is in the open position. For this purpose a pair of track rails 57 are shown as secured to the sides of the compartment (3, and the bottom of the waste water can 53 is provided with rollers 58 adapted to support the can 53 upon the tracks 57 and to provide for the easy forward movement of the can 53 along the track rails 57, which are shown asextending from the back to the front of the compartment (5, as appears clearly in Figures 2 and 6 of the drawings. The can supporting rails 57 may be located at any height in the compartment 6 according to the depth and capacity which it is desired that the waste water can 53 shall have. In the construction shown in the drawings the track rails 57 are shown as located at a substantial distance above the bottom of the compartment 6. The forward end of each of the track rails 57 is provided with an upstanding hook or lug 59 adapted when the can 53 is moved forward to engage the forward rollers 58 thereby forming abutment-s preventing the rollers 58 from running off the forward end of the tracks 57 and also providing means by which the can 53 may be easily tipped forward for emptying out its contents, as will be readily understood. In the construction shown in the drawings, the lower part of'the waste water can 53 occupies a space in the compartment 6 at the back of the upper part of the garbage can casing 26. The open space in the lower part of the compartment 6 left at the rear of the lower part of the garbage can casing 26 and below the waste water can 53 may be conveniently used for the storage of anything desired. lVhen plumbingconnections to the sink 8 are available, the waste water can 53 is omitted.

It is obvious that various modifications may be made in the construction shown in the drawings and above particularly de scribed within the principle and scope of my invention.

I claim:

1. A kitchenette formed as a single article of furniture and including, in combination, a compartment having a door at the front, a sink in the upper part of the compartment, an ice box alongside of the compartment and having a door, a backwardly swinging hinged cover for the top of the ice box form ing a drain board adapted to drain into the sink, and successively wider shelves behind it in its swinging position and adapted to permit it to be swung nearly vertical.

2. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furnitureand including, in combination, a consecutive series of three lower compartments, a hinged swinging front door for &

each of these compartments, a sink in the upper part of the middle compartment, a stove supported upon the top of one of the end compartments, the other end compartment being an ice box. so that the middle compartment separates the stove and ice box and a cover for the top of the ice box forming a drain board adapted to drain into the sink.

3. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and including, in combination, a compartment, a sink supported in the upper part of the compartment, and a waste water can supported in the compartment and extending around the lower part of the sink. whereby before the can is filled the water therein will rise into the sink thereby to indicate that the can is nearly full, the waste water can and the sink being mounted for relative vertical disengaging movement in order thereby to permit the waste water to be poured out of the can.

4. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and including, in combination. a compartment. a sink supported in the upper part of the compartment, a waste water can supported in the compartment and extending around the lower part of the sink, whereby before the can is filled the water therein will rise into the sink thereby to indicate that the can is nearly full. supports for the sink on which it is adapted to be lifted or raised out of the top of the waste water can to provide for the pouring of the waste water from the can,,and a device for holding the sink in its lifted posit-ion.

5. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and including, in combination, a compartment, a sink supported in the upper part of the compartment, a waste water can supported in the compartment and extending around the lower part of the sink, whereby before the can is filled the water therein will rise into the sink thereby to indicate that the can is nearly full, and a set of links pivoted to the upper part of the compartment and to the sink and providing for the upward and forward movement of the sink thereby to raise the sink above the top of the waste water can so as to provide for the pouring of the waste water from the can. 1

6. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and includin in combination, a compartment provide with a front door, a sink supported in the upper part of the compartment, a waste water can sup-- ported in the compartment and extending around the lower part of the sink, whereby before the canis filled the water therein will rise into the sink thereby to indicate that the can is nearlyfull, the sink being supported so as to adapt it to be lifted-or raised out of the top of the waste water can to provide for the pouring of the Waste water from the can, the sink and the waste water can being located in the back part of the compartment and spaced from the front thereof.

7. The invention claimed in claim 6 in combination with a cabinet section located at the front of the sink and at the front of the upper end of the waste water can and connected to be moved at the lifting of the sink out of the path of the upper end of the waste water can in the forward movement of the waste water can.

8. A unitary kitchen cabinet having a plurality of compartments, one of said com partments having a wall of heat insulating material, a sink and a heating element also contained within said cabinet.

9. In a kitchenette, the combination with a sink, of a liquid container disposed under the sink to receive the waste material therefrom, the walls of said container extending above the bottom of the sink.

10. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and including, in combination, a compartment, a liftable sink supported in the upper and back part of the compartment,rmeans for holding the sink in its lifted position, a-waste water can supported in the compartment below the sink and partly embracing it and adapted to receive waste water therefrom, track rails for movably supporting the waste water can and extending from the back to the front of the compartment, and rollers on the bottom of the waste water can and engaging said track rails thereby to provide'for the moving forward in the compartment of the waste water can from the back to the front thereof when it is to be emptied.

11. In a kitchenette, the combination with a sink, of a liquid container located therebelow and having walls extending above the bottom of said sink, and a supporting means for bodily moving one of them relative to the other in order that the top of said container may be below the bottom of said sink for removal of the container.

12. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and including a compartment comprising a. stove at one side, a compartment forming an ice box at the opposite side, and a single intervening compartment containing'a sink and garbage can.

13. A kitchenette forming a unitary article of furniture and including a, compartment comp-rising a stove at one side, a compartment forming an ice box at the opposite side, a single intervening compartment containing a sink and garbage can, an upper compartment abovethe first, and a ventilating shaft carried from the can compartment above the upper compartments.

14. A kitchenette formin a unitary artiswung over the sink to deliver water to it cle of furniture and including a plurality and to be swung clear of the sink to permit of compartments, one of said compartments it to rise. e 10 having a sink mounted therein, a support In testimony whereof, I have aflixed my 5 for said sink adapted to permit it to be signature to this specification.

swung forward and lifted, and swivel faucets in the sink compartment adapted to be KENNETH M. MURCHISON. 

